A new top prosecutor for the nation’s largest county is taking office Monday with a promise to usher in a tougher-on-crime ...

He’ll get off to a quick stary by ending the ban on adding gang- and gun-enhancement charges to crimes and other Gascón ...

Nathan Hochman will officially take office as the 44th District Attorney of Los Angeles County in a swearing-in ceremony ...

Civically involved Los Angeles County citizens who voted for or against incoming District Attorney Nathan Hochman this should ...

Nathan Hochman won last week's election for DA, beating incumbent George Gascón in a landslide, will take office in December.

The success of November’s Proposition 36 is just the latest chapter in the state’s seesaw process that has been going on ...

Hochman blew past Gascón as soon as the first set of election results began trickling in Tuesday night and never let up on his double-digit lead. Gascón conceded the race Wednesday morning, several ...

Lyle Menendez has been locked up in California for more than three decades for shooting his parents dead in their Beverly Hills mansion.

Voters also approved a measure to partially reverse Proposition 47, increasing penalties for repeat offenders and certain drug crimes.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nathan Hochman defeated George Gascón in the race for Los Angeles County district attorney, unseating an incumbent known as the godfather of progressive prosecutors.

Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted in 1996 for the 1989 murders of their parents, are closer than ever to a potential ...

"My job is to actually listen to those solutions and implement them along with my ideas, as quickly as possible," Nathan Hochman said Wednesday morning, hours after it was clear he'd unseated ...